1 Samuel 31

Thomson^{(i) 1} Now when the Philistines attacked Israel, the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and the wounded fell on the mountain Gelbua, ² and the Philistines came to a close engagement with Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisa, sons of Saul. ³ And the battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded in the hypochondres, ⁴ whereupon Saul said to his armour bearer, Draw thy sword, and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and stab me, and insult me. But his armour bearer would not, for he was struck with horror. Therefore Saul took the sword, and fell on it. ⁵ And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword, and died with him. ⁶ Thus Saul, and his three sons, and his armour bearer, died on the same day in the same place. ⁷ And when the men of Israel who were on this side the vale, and they who were on the bank of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled; and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left their cities, and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt therein. ⁸ Now on the morrow when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul, and his three sons, fallen on the mountains of Gelbua. ⁹ And they treated him scornfully, and stripped off his armour, and sent it to the land of the Philistines, proclaiming the good news all around to their idols, and to the people. ¹⁰ And they hung up his arms in the temple of Astarte, and fixed, up his body on the wall of Baithsam. ¹¹ But when the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² they arose, even all the men of valour, and marched the whole night, and took the body of Saul, and the body of Jonathan his son, from the wall of Baithsam, and carried them to Jabis and there burned them. ¹³ Then they took their bones, and buried them in the field at Jabis, and fasted seven days.